The “Ghost of Kyiv” is more myth than man.

A report that the Ukrainian fighter pilot who flew into people’s hearts as a modern Red Baron flying a MiG-29 jet and shooting Russian rivals out of the sky was identified and killed in battle can’t be true — because he never existed, according to Ukrainian officials.

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